Hallucinations, hallucinations. There are hallucinations that lurk in hallucinations, and hallucinations that are born out of hallucinations. A lie that lurks in the truth, a truth that lurks in a lie......

All human beings want to believe in their own cognition and existence.

However, in the face of the reality beneath the surface, the conviction is too futile and too illusory.

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When Carl, who hadn't slept well all night because of nightmares, came to the office with two severe dark circles under his eyes, he was greeted by Ryan walking in front - the other party didn't seem to be in very good shape.

The man also had huge dark circles under his eyes, as if he hadn't slept all night yesterday.

“…… Ryan, did you stay up late yesterday? With a caring heart, he asked.

"Uh-huh?" The other party's state was worse than expected, and it took several seconds for Ryan to react, "No, it's okay, I'm ...... It's okay. ”

Carl's expression became serious in an instant, because the other party's spirit was obviously a little unstable, just now he caught a subtle movement that wanted to escape, and after looking closely, the man looked around with anxiety and uneasiness in his eyes, as if he had discovered that some terrible person was following him, and if he didn't pay attention, he would be knocked unconscious by a stick and dragged into a dark corner.

In a trance, he seemed to think of something.

"Is it hard to make this look of yours...... Could it be that you have seen it too? ”

Carl was referring to his own nightmare. As a person who also "died" in the world of hypercubes, it is really strange that he is the only one who is haunted by nightmares, which means that Ryan is not unresponsive but a little late?

The answer was far more terrifying than he had imagined.

Ryan, who was full of positive energy yesterday, seems to have wilted today. Extremely nervous, he looked around a few times in fact, and only after confirming that there were no suspicious people around him did he let out a long sigh of relief, and then hugged his head in horror, "Ah, yes, I saw it...... There was no one in the room, but it was like someone was staring at. As soon as you turn off the light, it seems that there are shadows moving in the dark, and as soon as you close your eyes, it seems that something terrifying has come to you. ”

“…… Whose sight is it? ”

It's just an instant. Carl's expression became even more horrified than before.

Grabbing the other party's shoulder, he roared with wide eyes, "The gaze behind you? Wait, you shouldn't have had a nightmare. Right, did you see what it was like to be killed in the system? ”

Ryan slapped his hand away. Frowning and answering, "Nightmare, this is indeed a nightmare, but the scene of being killed...... Although the feeling in the system is very real, the essence is still the same as watching a horror movie, are you still like a child who can't sleep and have nightmares after watching horror movies? ”

Carl's next sentence was simply choked back into his stomach, and he gritted his teeth and thought about it again and again, but he still didn't say anything more after all.

The two who broke up unhappily stepped into the company. And just as they returned to their place of work, ready to take a closer look at yesterday's events. There was a person who they had to pay attention to.

“Boss？ What are you doing here? ”

However, this action of the two was directly ignored, and the chief steward who strode in front of him looked extremely serious, and went straight to the point without any polite opening, "I have seen Ryan's report, and the situation is more serious than you think...... Come and see for yourself what is happening on the Internet now. ”

"On the web?" The two couldn't help but be shocked, and exclaimed in unison, "Could it be that the virus has spread on a large scale and caused the network to be paralyzed?" ”

"No, but it's worse than that."

An answer made their hearts sink suddenly, and the two silently quickened their pace to keep up with the manager, and came to a large conference room that they rarely had the opportunity to enter.

There were already a lot of people here, and in addition to the executives of the company, who rarely showed up, the two of them also saw a few incredible figures, a few government officials who usually saw on television under the support of a group of armed soldiers, and several men with iron-blooded faces.

“…… It's people from the government and the military, how can they come together? ”

Carl muttered to himself, but before he could get an answer, he and Ryan were "sent" to the front.

Then the manager stepped aside, said something to the group of people who were talking about it, and then picked up the microphone and said in a deep voice, "They are the first to discover this matter, but they, like many of the people present, do not know the seriousness of this matter now, so Dr. Susan will give us a brief introduction-"

A middle-aged woman with blond hair immediately stood up, and after a gesture, she walked directly to the center, turned on the holographic projection console and called up a string of holograms, "Basically, I'm making a long story short, the company originally researched the technology of "quantum transmission", but this technology failed because it was too high-end or too mysterious, but we got an efficient by-product - hypercube, which may now be a world called "ring". We have built a complete four-dimensional space in it, because of the time-axis nature of the four-dimensional space, we can use it to predict the future to a certain extent, and because we have mastered the way of connecting people's spirits into it, which is called "immersion", the scheme of conducting military exercises and scientific research through this quantum space has been successfully carried out. ”

"But it's precisely because the world itself is going to evolve that the system sometimes develops very incredible bugs, such as this miraculous battle-" her hand clicked in the air, calling up a series of fantasy movie-like images, "These people, angels, and demons are all automatically generated by the system, which can be called viruses or bugs, which have a great impact on the security of the system itself, but because they are in the beta version of the hypercube space, in the "box" When it crashes, everything is wiped out, leaving only their data and records.

It is precisely because of these exact records that our pharmaceutical, mechanical, biological and other technologies have achieved a milestone leap, and the administrator template copied from these data has also perfectly realized the management of system security. Unfortunately, this only lasted until yesterday. ”

As soon as the conversation turned, she brought up a new scene, which was the scene of the Administrator-controlled demons and vampires being killed in seconds, but at the end of the scene, it became a garbled and nothing could be seen, and then it jumped to the surveillance camera of a laboratory, where Carl could be seen yelling at the air, being pacified by Ryan and operating on the computer, and finally dropping his phone there.

And when the group didn't frown, she continued, "This is what happened yesterday, the two administrators were killed by the newborn "virus", although they woke up safely but their spirits were affected to a certain extent, but the key to the problem is the thing that happened after this - they found the virus program from the background of the system and automatically uploaded it to the network, unfortunately I can't show you the content of the virus here, because what I want to talk about next is the seriousness of this problem. ”

"Some netizens were the first to notice the problem, they mentioned on the forum that they saw a file on the computer that was supposed to be a virus, which showed a black sword blade shattering the picture into nothingness and turning it into darkness...... It was actually the virus that escaped from the lab, but since he showed no signs of a vicious attack and did not plant a Trojan horse, people who saw it thought it was just a prank and did not react, but this was not the case. Because their computers were not affected, but they were the ones who saw the video. After that, they all felt as if someone was watching them from behind, wondered "whose gaze was that?", and generally had terrible nightmares when they wanted to rest—"

There was an uproar at the scene, and even Carl and Ryan felt a little incredible.

What is this?

The real version of "Midnight Bell"?

Sadako follows the progress of the times and does not climb the TV, but comes out of the computer without a ringtone? (To be continued......)